Pensioner firebombed asylum hotel

An anti-migrant protestor hurled a Molotov cocktail at a hotel housing up to 500 asylum seekers, a court heard. Mark Neville, 65, was seen clutching a plastic bag close to his chest as he crouched down outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in Islington on 25 September last year, it was said. Asked by a security guard what he was doing, Neville replied: ‘It’s my liquor,’ before walking away from the building. Twenty minutes later the firebomb was thrown towards…